Arterton Quotes

#1. Because of the fact I look a lot younger than I really am, I think, I end up getting these girl-next-door roles. I mean, I'm not a Gemma Arterton type as far as I can tell.

Kimberley Nixon

#2. Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.

Luke Evans

#3. I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.

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#4. I don't go out and go to parties and do all of that.

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#5. My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.

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#6. I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

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#7. I'm quite a physical person and I gesticulate a lot, which can be a problem when you're in Hollywood and they do everything in a minimalist way ...

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#8. I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.

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#9. When I go home, everyone's very proud. I get recognized the most when I go back to my hometown, but it's in a really sweet way. They're just very proud and supportive.

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#10. I've worked on jobs where there are almost 200 people on set ... you always make an effort to have a relationship but you can't really when there's 200.

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#11. Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

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#12. I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive. And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!

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#13. I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

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#14. I think my favorite is Honor Blackman because she is classy and she is British. With Bond, I love how British it is actually. She is classy and clever and smart and sharp.

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#15. The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them ... I'm in them! But I don't go and spend my money on them.

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#16. When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

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#17. I have this attitude to life that is not to take anything too seriously and not worry about anything, and when I met him I wasn't too nervous and I was being myself.

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#18. I don't want to be about the way I look - my body, my hair, my makeup, all those boring things.

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#19. You can't connect with something you're not passionate about.

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#20. I was born with lots of deformities.

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#21. I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.

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#22. It's a surreal thing because you are there and made up and dressed up as if you're making the film. You do the scene, which is going to be in the film, and I met him [Daniel Craig] and I'm working with the director, and so it is different to just a normal audition.

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#23. The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

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#24. I was born with six fingers on each hand.

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#25. My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

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#26. I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

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#27. It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different.

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#28. Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.

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#29. I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

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#30. I'm kind of a chatty person and the props guys would have to handcuff me and tie me up and sometimes I'd just be chatting and they'd just pop it back in ... like: "OK now, shut up!"

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#31. I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

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#32. I was quite naughty at school.

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#33. My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all.

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#34. It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.

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#35. I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

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#36. There was one day where I had to be hysterical all day, then of course it's going to affect you. You're going to go home and feel drained, or feel like you need to let off steam.

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#37. I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.

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#38. I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.

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#39. I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it.

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#40. Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.

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#41. I probably should get a bit more star-struck but I never do.

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#42. I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

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#43. It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

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#44. Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real.

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